Lovely work sir. The dapple grey horse looks great.
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Lovely work sir. The dapple grey horse looks great.
As I have a number of Andalusian Archers that can do double duty as Spanish Archers, I have made up some slingers to bring the total up to 12. Bodies are Gripping Beast Plastics, heads are Westwind Productions Arthurian Romano-British (or something like that).
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The cavaliers turned out wonderful mate !
Thank you very much, I am very happy with them. :)
Spanish slingers are finished and based:
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Here they are with some previous slingers as well as some converted Andalusian bowmen. This group will be a unit of levies for my Christian Spanish Crescent and the Cross warband:
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Nice. Its fun to see what a simple thing as a new head can do for a total new look on the miniatures.
Some of the sculpting on the Westwind heads is a little coarse (they boy in orange and the fellow in grey both have very deep eye sockets) but some of the heads are very nice and they are great for adding variety.
Very nice and varied unit. Cool stuff. :)
Now that I have finished off those Empire Knights and I have a little more time available to me, I am back to some ECW cavalry. Horses awaiting riders (which just got primed this am):
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Wow, I must say I'm very impressed by your double-threat modelling and painting skills. Keep up the great work!
Finished up the cavalry. All I need now is to find a banner.
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Awesome cav, I love your naturalistic style.
Nice. What kind of flag are you looking for?
I was thinking of Prince Rupert's if I could find it.
I painted up some of Warlord's plastic Firelocks. Not their best plastics: soft detail, more flash than their other kits. I can't say I enjoyed painting them.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...psc49931bd.jpg
I have also based some Ming Chinese:
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The infantry models are from Forlorn Hope, the cavalry are Ebob's Mongols. I believe the Ming sculpts are by Cavalcade. Although unremarkable, I would put them on par with the Perry's in terms of quality. Flash and mould lines were minimal, very clean casting.
Ebob's mongols are fantastic sculpts; lots of crisp detail and very well proportioned. However, the casting is not so clean, especially around where the rider's torso attached to his legs (which come sculpted to the horse). Mould lines are minimal but more than average amounts of flash I would say.
I'm fairly sure that the storming party plastics was their first P&S plastic mould so probably not that surprising that it is of worse quality than the later stuff (which I agree it is).
Those two left Ming guys are playing air guitar, I wonder who's best? :D The Ebob horses are looking very nice, lovely heads.
The one even looks like he is singing. :D They will have spears shortly.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrtn
I am having a bit of a hard time finding information regarding colours for their uniforms. The Osprey book mentions a scroll which shows all the infantry in red or white but also suggests that there were a few other colours used, mostly green and black. I will have to keep sniffing around the interwebz I guess....
You may not have enjoyed painting those models, but they look excellent. Those tiny splashes of red really set them off.
Thank you Ramius4.
A WIP of the Ming soldiers. Although red seems to be a common colour for the tunic, at least one source suggested it was reserved for elite troops. Green and black were also mentioned so I went for the more colourful option.
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I finished the Ming foot soldiers a while ago but just finally took a picture:
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Also, a WIP shot of the commander; I went for colourful!
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